Welcome to the Revolution… The Inland Empire’s Comic Con Revolution (CCR) is a sci-fi/fantasy/comic books convention based in the city of Ontario, California. It first sprang into existence in 2017 as a garage sale in a nice venue; with few attractions and scant attendance. But over the past eight years, this ‘little’ convention has dramatically grown in size…
Tag: Quantum Leap
Three Irwin Allen sci-fi TV shows from the 1960s to be rebooted into a shared universe…
******SOME SPOILERS****** The late writer/producer/director Irwin Allen (1916-1991) was the engine behind a slew of wildly imaginative, pulp-adventure sci-fi shows from the 1960s, as well as the director/producer of several iconic 1970s ‘disaster’ movies (in terms of genre, not box office success), including “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972), “The Towering Inferno” (1974) and “The Swarm” (1978)….
The plug is (sadly) pulled on the new “Quantum Leap” (2022-2024)…
*****SPACETIME SPOILERS!***** The Reboot With its second season ending on an intriguing cliffhanger, NBC has made the decision not to renew its previously on-the-bubble TV series “Quantum Leap” (QL), which was a soft-reboot/sequel to the original series (1989-1993), featuring a new cast who continue in the time-traveling footsteps of Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) and…
Quantum Leap ends its second season with a two-part finale, “As the World Burns” and “Against Time”…
*****ZIGGY-SIZED SPOILERS!***** NBC/Peacock’s revived “Quantum Leap” just ended its second season, leaving the door wide open for a third, but given its uncertain future, this might be a series finale as well. The original Quantum Leap (1989-1993) was a time-traveling anthology series following the quest of Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) to right past wrongs…
Quantum Leap: “One Night in Koreatown” tackles the L.A. Riots of 1992…
*****ZIGGY-SIZED SPOILERS!***** NBC-Peacock’s rebooted “Quantum Leap” is halfway into its second season now, and the latest episode was another high mark for this enjoyable series, as Dr. Ben Song (Raymond Lee) leaps into an 18-year old Korean-American kid working with his brother in his father’s shoe store at the onset of the Los Angeles Riots…
Quantum Leap’s season one finale, “Judgment Day,” pushes the boundaries of the show’s mythology…
*****ZIGGY-SIZED SPOILERS!***** The first season finale of NBC’s reboot-continuation of “Quantum Leap” has aired, and it greatly expands the mythology of the show by breaking some of its earlier rules (sometimes the best way to fix something is to break it, right?). In a clever nod to “Back to the Future Part 2” (the dark-horse…
Cosplay, Quantum Leap, and the Walking Dead: WonderCon 2023 wraps…
Welcome Back. Once again, WonderCon has returned to Anaheim, California and with COVID restrictions pretty much gone now (though I still wear masks), things feel a bit more back to normal. This year also saw a surprising championing of smaller or lesser-known movies and TV projects than in years’ past. Instead of a DC or…
The new “Quantum Leap” (2022) is worth the time…
*****ZIGGY-SIZE SPOILERS!***** The Best of Both. I’ve recently reviewed the pilot episode of the “Quantum Leap” (2022) soft-reboot in an earlier column, and even though the series hasn’t yet reached its midseason break (as of this writing), I feel it already warrants a closer look. I also hope to reach a few reluctant old-school ‘Leapers’,…
“Quantum Leap” (2022); an old program is updated with fresh new code…
******ZIGGY-SIZED SPOILERS!!****** “Quantum Leap” (1989-1993). “Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator, and vanished. He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His…
From “The Boy With Green Hair” to “Battlestar Galactica”: Dean Stockwell, 1936-2021…
From Child Star to Battlestar. Despite attending many sci-fi/fantasy conventions over the years, I, sadly, never had the chance to meet the late Dean Stockwell, though I’ve been a fan of his work for decades. The former childhood star, who passed away on November 7th from natural causes, had a career dating back to when…
DisneyPlus’ “Loki” takes a time-traveling leap into Marvel’s mischievous prankster…
Caveats and Chaos. A couple of caveats to this column. First, to my regular readers (I’m grateful for each of you) I want to apologize for the slower influx of fresh content lately. My little house in the ‘burbs has been plagued with a solid month of plumbing/electrical issues, and has only returned to something…